{"id":9920,"date":"2006-02-22T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-22T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2006\/02\/22\/trans-world-bids-for-musicland\/"},"modified":"2006-02-22T10:18:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-22T14:18:00","slug":"trans-world-bids-for-musicland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/trans-world-bids-for-musicland\/","title":{"rendered":"Trans World Bids for Musicland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trans World Entertainment Corporation, parent company of the FYE chain of music stores, has submitted a bid to purchase bankrupt Musicland Holding Corp. for $104 million in addition to assuming Musicland&#8217;s $17.1 million debt. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icv2.com\/articles\/home\/8260.html\" target=\"_blank\">ICv2 research<\/a>, the reaction to the possible acquisition from unidentified members of America&#8217;s anime and manga retail industry varied from hoping that new ownership would salvage some mainstream distribution for anime and manga, while other respondents worry about Trans World&#8217;s marginal interest in supporting anime and manga sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trans World Entertainment Corporation, parent company of the FYE chain of music stores, has submitted a bid to purchase bankrupt Musicland Holding Corp. for $104 million in addition to assuming Musicland&#8217;s $17.1 million debt. According to ICv2 research, the reaction to the possible acquisition from unidentified members of America&#8217;s anime and manga retail industry varied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}